Bat script start a program and than restart

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I need some help creating a .bat script that starts a program and when done it restarts the computer.

cmd /c C:\"Program Files"\"Toolwiz Time Freeze"\ToolwizTimeFreeze.exe /usepass=password /freezealways

This is what is should do first. This works fine. This will enable the program to protect after every restart. That's why I need to add a restart. I was thinking of adding this

&& shutdown /r /f /0

Problem is that the command prompt keeps hanging. And the shutdown does not go through. Any ideas?

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The syntax that you should use for the shutdown command is:

shutdown -r -f -t 0

I think it might be your /0 that is throwing it off. The full syntax can be found here on TechNet.

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see this for example.

The for loop I did like this:

FOR %%a IN ("filename1" "filename2" "filename3") DO something %%a -clean Lib -log errors >> logfilename

.bat files to find all files on drive bigger than X

@echo off
rem only files bigger than %threshold% MB are listed
set threshold=100

for /r %%F in (*) do call :foo %%~zF "%%F"
goto :eof

:foo
set size=%1
set size_mb=%size:~0,-6%
if not defined size_mb set size_mb=0
if %size_mb% GTR %threshold% echo.%~2
goto :eof

The subroutine is sadly necessary since delayed expansion didn't want the way how I extracted the megabytes (yes, indeed, megabytes, not mebibytes – I don't like it either, but it's the easiest here).

Note that this approach will fail for files larger than roughly two exabytes since cmd cannot do a numeric comparison with values that won't fit into a signed 32-bit integer.

The code can also be found in my SVN repository.

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